Contemporary Women Writers Book Group In-Person
For September we will be reading This Time Next Year We Will be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, Winspear’s memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents' years living with Romani Gypsies; and Jacqueline's own childhood working on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing is the story of a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.
Order book here ---> This Time Next Year We Will be Laughing
The Northfield Library Contemporary Women Writers Book Group meets eleven times a year, January through November.
We meet at the Northfield Public Library in the Bunday Meeting Room.
For further information please contact Joan Ennis at jcennisbooks@gmail.com
Related LibGuide: Book Groups hosted by the Northfield Public Library by Steve Maus
- Date:
- Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Show more dates
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Bunday Room
- Audience:
- Adult English
- Categories:
- Book Club
